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Research
Interests
The
word cloud above reveals the most common concepts I've emphasized to
date (based on the abstract and introduction text of all of my academic
papers). I work in the areas of resource and environmental
economics. I’m
interested in problems involving decision-making
under uncertainty, learning, adaptive management and environmental risk. The methods I use include
econometrics with
Bayesian inference, Bayesian learning processes, dynamic control and
general
equilibrium models.
Recent and current projects include: combined bioeconomic and
quantitative genetic models for salmon biodiversity management;
estimating and
mitigating invasive species risk from international trade; adaptive
management
of environmental risk; econometrics for decision-making applied to
screening of
potentially hazardous imports; analysis of greenhouse gas control
policies
under uncertainty; voluntary policies for stormwater pollution
control; and a spatial analysis of voluntary participation in a green
building certification program (USGBC/LEED).
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Invasive zebra
mussels, credit: USFWS
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Publications
Closing the gap between risk estimation and decision-making:
efficient management of trade-related invasive species risk
(with Robert Lieli) The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95:2, 632–645.
Bioeconomic forecasting of invasive species by ecological syndrome (with John Schmidt and John Drake) Ecosphere, forthcoming.
Sediment-adsorbed
total mercury flux through Yolo Bypass, the primary floodway and
wetland in the Sacramento Valley, California (with Michael Bliss Singer
and Thomas Dunne) Science of the Total Environment, forthcoming.
The value of nonindigenous species risk assessment in
international trade (with Reuben Keller and Christina Romagosa) Ecological Economics 70(11), 2011, 2145-2153.
Long-term
correlations in European socioeonomic conditions create a bias towards
conclusion that an invasion debt occurs (Letter to the Editor, with
Reuben Keller) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108(25 E220), 2011.
Emissions targets and the real business cycle (with Carolyn Fischer) Journal of Environmental Economics
and Management 62(3), 2011, 352-366.
Adaptive human behavior in epidemiological models. (with Eli Fenichel and others) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(15), 2011, 6306-6311.
How to Get There From Here: Ecological and Economic Dynamics of Ecosystem Service Provision. (with James N. Sanchirico) Environmental and Resource Economics, 48(2), 2011, 243-267.
Optimal
random exploration for trade-related non-indigenous species risk. (with
Christopher J. Costello, and Peyton Ferrier) in Bioinvasions
and
Globalization: Ecology, Economics, Management, and Policy, ed.
C. Perrings,
H. Mooney and M. Williamson, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010.
Unintended
biological invasions: Does risk vary by trading partner?
(with Christopher J. Costello, Carol McAusland,
and Andy Solow) Journal of Environmental Economics
and Management,
54(3), 2007, 262-276.
Policy and risk processes of
trade-related
biological invasions.
(with Christopher Costello and Carol McAusland) U.S.
Department of
Agriculture, Economics Research Report, CCR-41, June 2008.
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| Prospective
graduate students
I
anticipate accepting graduate students
through the graduate
group in ecology
(Environmental
Policy Area of Emphasis) for the fall of 2011 and 2012. When
inquiring about graduate school at UC Davis, please include in your email a short
description of
your academic and professional background (including economic and
ecology
classes), your academic interests, and a couple of sentences
on why you
are interested in attending graduate school. A solid
quantitative background (economics, mathematics and/or statistics) is
important. New for admissions in 2012: You may want to consider applying for support as a trainee in our new NSF IGERT in Climate Change, Water and Society (CCWAS)
which "is designed to provide a new generation of scientists with the
disciplinary depth and the multidisciplinary breadth to address effects
of climate change on water resources, including unification of
hydrologic and climate science toward a more advanced understanding of
hydroclimatology and better translation of science into action."
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Personal
Other environmental initiatives in the family: specializing in green windows in Austin, The Soco Studio is my brother Zack's effort to bring energy efficient windows to Texas.
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